Numinous meets every Sunday afternoon from 2p-4pm (5:30p-7:30p in Summer) for special guest speakers, self-cultivation lectures, and coherence meditation. Your patronage goes to support Global Peaceful Cities Projects in Albany, and Schenectady, NY. Without you, our research would not be possible. Thank-you!
To view our full calendar, go to http://numinousonline.com/calendar/
Interested in learning meditation, but don’t know where to start?
Interested in learning how to lead others in meditation?
Earn a certificate of completion in Meditation Leader Training, a six hour programme open to those new to meditation and those with experience.
The next class is scheduled for Fall 2017. Please email Info@PeacefulCities.org for more information.
The Albany Peace Project is an online and offline community of meditators who focus their meditation intentional efforts to help eliminate suffering in the Greater Albany, NY area. To date, 20 out of 24 intentional studies were performed throughout the world that demonstrate when large groups of people focus their peaceful intentions there is a positive effect on the whole.
Currently, researchers, Karin Reinhold, PhD, and Bethany Gonyea, MS are gathering and training meditation volunteers in the greater Albany area to become part of this exciting pioneering work. Meditative instruction and intentional research video blog casting is being offered to help people gain an understanding of the inspiring research that has already been done, and the need to add to this exciting growing body of work.
The Albany Peace Project is an outreach of NUMINOUS, a 501(c)3 non-denominational organization which offers lectures that synthesize biofeedback training & healing/prayer research to provide reliable methods for strengthening and inspiring dynamic lives of service. The Albany Peace Project has been created with the acknowledgement that not all faiths can agree on doctrine, but can agree to employ focused healing intentions to reduce human suffering.
When you click on the link below it will take you to that day’s specific meditation. When you participate in this study, please follow the instructions. Please be sure to click the play button on the Soundcloud to participate in our collective research, and Dr. Karin Reinhold will be able to include your participation with our data. We need you to click the soundcloud once you visit the page in order for our data to work.
12.31.16 – Bethany Gonyea Opens APP 2017: Awakening Your Hero
1.1.17 – Bethany Gonyea, Founder, Awakening the Hero Within
1.2.17 – Mary Sise, LCSW, Author of Energy of Belief
1.3.17 – Karin Reinhold, PhD, Researcher for Albany Peace Project
1.4.17 – Mark Shepard – “Compulsive Singer/Songwriter” & NLP Master Trainer
1.5.17 – Michelle Dalbec – Kripalu Yoga Teacher
1.6.17 – Brandon Russ – Spirit Tree Connections, Owner
1.7.17 – Bethany Gonyea – Social Coherence and Emotional Diabetics
1.8.17 – Bernard Shuman – Mindfulness As A Solution To Violence
1.9.17 – Damian Ubriaco – Saratoga High School English Teacher
1.10.17 – Ray Crist – Jaguar Path Yoga & Shamanic School
1.11.17 – Ellen Rose Cunningham – Kripalu Trained Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher
1.12.17 – Martina Zobel – Integrative Yoga Therapy
1.13.17 Steven Leonard – Kripalu Staff Yoga Teacher
1.14.17 – Bethany Gonyea – Collective Emotion and “Global Coherence”
1.15.17 – Rev. Crystal Muldrow – Unity Minister
The word NUMINOUS was coined in 1917 by Rudolph Otto, a German theologian and scholar of comparative religion. Otto defined the numinous as a nonrational nonsensory experience or feeling whose primary and immediate object is outside the self.
Numinous is defined as “having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity.” Others define numinous as an ancient, strange beauty; something that is spiritual, religious, divine, holy, or sacred; while being mysterious, otherworldly, unearthly, and transcendent.
Author, CS Lewis and founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung, used the word prominently in their writings, which made the word more well-known.
Numinous events typically fill us with a sense that we are in contact with something more significant and greater than the individual self or ego. Although, the Numinous is ineffable, numinous dreams and experiences have a lingering presence that stay with us and continue to impact us each time we recall them, and they can often influence us for our entire lives. Being able to live a life that makes room for the Numinous, seems to bring us back to that sense of awe and wonder we had as children, and infuses life with greater energy and bliss.
Unfortunately, many pop-culture media experiences, bottom-line business practices, and even many religious rituals can make little room for the numinous…which can lead to feelings of emptiness, despair, and powerlessness. NUMINOUS programs are designed to help access the space in your own consciousness that is a reliable reservoir for well-being and wonder.
